Green corn (maize) — Area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs): Green corn (maize) — Area harvested was 301,860 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising
Green corn (maize) — Area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs), 1961–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in ha.
Analysis
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) recorded 301,860 ha for green corn (maize) — area harvested in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 10.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, green corn (maize) — area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) peaked at 308,951 ha in 2022 and was at its lowest, 122,127 ha, in 1965.
Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) ranks 5th of 26 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 64 years of available data.
Green corn (maize) — Area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs), year by year
| Year | ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 146,918 ha | — |
| 1962 | 157,522 ha | +7.2% |
| 1963 | 141,127 ha | -10.4% |
| 1964 | 143,233 ha | +1.5% |
| 1965 | 122,127 ha | -14.7% |
| 1966 | 162,257 ha | +32.9% |
| 1967 | 174,272 ha | +7.4% |
| 1968 | 194,958 ha | +11.9% |
| 1969 | 189,500 ha | -2.8% |
| 1970 | 211,137 ha | +11.4% |
| 1971 | 200,599 ha | -5.0% |
| 1972 | 167,172 ha | -16.7% |
| 1973 | 156,368 ha | -6.5% |
| 1974 | 172,838 ha | +10.5% |
| 1975 | 188,778 ha | +9.2% |
| 1976 | 188,292 ha | -0.3% |
| 1977 | 185,279 ha | -1.6% |
| 1978 | 187,174 ha | +1.0% |
| 1979 | 189,995 ha | +1.5% |
| 1980 | 202,147 ha | +6.4% |
| 1981 | 209,637 ha | +3.7% |
| 1982 | 216,769 ha | +3.4% |
| 1983 | 202,530 ha | -6.6% |
| 1984 | 229,624 ha | +13.4% |
| 1985 | 224,308 ha | -2.3% |
| 1986 | 200,543 ha | -10.6% |
| 1987 | 205,385 ha | +2.4% |
| 1988 | 207,680 ha | +1.1% |
| 1989 | 211,406 ha | +1.8% |
| 1990 | 198,230 ha | -6.2% |
| 1991 | 228,253 ha | +15.1% |
| 1992 | 220,780 ha | -3.3% |
| 1993 | 225,717 ha | +2.2% |
| 1994 | 231,600 ha | +2.6% |
| 1995 | 234,058 ha | +1.1% |
| 1996 | 230,237 ha | -1.6% |
| 1997 | 230,370 ha | +0.1% |
| 1998 | 228,311 ha | -0.9% |
| 1999 | 238,109 ha | +4.3% |
| 2000 | 246,325 ha | +3.5% |
| 2001 | 249,660 ha | +1.4% |
| 2002 | 257,954 ha | +3.3% |
| 2003 | 266,058 ha | +3.1% |
| 2004 | 271,132 ha | +1.9% |
| 2005 | 277,528 ha | +2.4% |
| 2006 | 256,975 ha | -7.4% |
| 2007 | 258,433 ha | +0.6% |
| 2008 | 261,707 ha | +1.3% |
| 2009 | 265,347 ha | +1.4% |
| 2010 | 271,991 ha | +2.5% |
| 2011 | 271,870 ha | -0.0% |
| 2012 | 271,606 ha | -0.1% |
| 2013 | 273,163 ha | +0.6% |
| 2014 | 274,394 ha | +0.5% |
| 2015 | 279,135 ha | +1.7% |
| 2016 | 278,909 ha | -0.1% |
| 2017 | 275,702 ha | -1.1% |
| 2018 | 282,334 ha | +2.4% |
| 2019 | 281,599 ha | -0.3% |
| 2020 | 283,207 ha | +0.6% |
| 2021 | 291,147 ha | +2.8% |
| 2022 | 308,951 ha | +6.1% |
| 2023 | 301,376 ha | -2.5% |
| 2024 | 301,860 ha | +0.2% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Green corn (maize) — Area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | +32.9% | 122,127 ha | 162,257 ha |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 159,102 ha | 122,127 ha | 194,958 ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 184,763 ha | 156,368 ha | 211,137 ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 211,003 ha | 200,543 ha | 229,624 ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 226,566 ha | 198,230 ha | 238,109 ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 261,112 ha | 246,325 ha | 277,528 ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 276,070 ha | 271,606 ha | 282,334 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 297,308 ha | 283,207 ha | 308,951 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)
- 2 Guinea 141,002 ha compare
- 3 Indonesia 111,363 ha compare
- 4 Mexico 70,414 ha compare
- 4 Melanesia 25,110 ha compare
- 5 Peru 45,230 ha compare
- 5 United Republic of Tanzania 14,328 ha compare
- 6 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 9,469 ha compare
- 6 South Africa 38,975 ha compare
- 7 Republic of Moldova 599 ha compare
- 7 Thailand 37,109 ha compare
- 8 Hungary 36,623 ha compare
- 8 Polynesia 57 ha compare
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Frequently asked questions
- What is green corn (maize) — area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- Green corn (maize) — area harvested in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) was 301,860 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest green corn (maize) — area harvested recorded in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- The highest recorded value was 308,951 ha in 2022.
- What is the lowest green corn (maize) — area harvested recorded in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- The lowest recorded value was 122,127 ha in 1965.
- How does Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) rank for green corn (maize) — area harvested?
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) ranks 5th out of 26 groups with data for 2024.
- Is green corn (maize) — area harvested rising or falling in Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Green corn (maize) — Area harvested. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.